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April 15 – Oct 31
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Museum is closed on Jan 1st
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The October in Kragujevac Memorial Park is a unique cultural site in Southeastern Europe. It preserves the memory of innocent victims who were murdered in October 1941, when members of the regular German Army – the Wehrmacht – killed nearly 3,000 civilians in only three days in Kragujevac and its surroundings.
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The memorial park preserves the memory of innocent victims who were murdered in October 1941, when members of the regular German Army – the Wehrmacht – killed nearly 3,000 civilians in only 3 days in Kragujevac and its surroundings. After the war, in 1953, the site of these horrific executions...
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The 21st of October Museum within the memorial park was opened to the public in 1976, the same year the city of Kragujevac celebrated the 500th anniversary since its founding. The building was designed by eminent architect and academic Dr. Ivan Antić and architect Ivanka Raspopović. Construction of the museum...
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The massacre in Kragujevac on the 21st of October 1941 was one of the worst crimes committed by the German Army in World War II. The motive for the massacre was exacting revenge the loss the German forces suffered on the 16th of October fighting against the Chetniks and the...
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Since its foundation, the museum and the memorial park have been visited by more than five million people. Organized visits begin in the museum and end in the memorial space. Work began on a new installation within the complex in 2003. This was done to upgrade the existing installation, which...
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There are three sculptures in the permanent exhibition of the museum. Two of these are made of galvanized tin, and together they form one polarised work of art. The first half, entitled Push to the East, is in the shape of an ominous and powerful eagle representing fascism at the...
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The grounds of the October in Kragujevac Memorial Park are surrounded by gentle slopes. At the bottom of these slopes are the Erdoglijski and Sušički streams, which divide the entire complex into two distinct sections. Scattered around this area are 29 graves, in which the victims who were massacred on...
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The oldest monument in the park is Pain and Defiance, sculpted by Ante Gržetić in 1959. It represents the figures of a man and a woman carved out of a single block of marble.
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The most famous sculpture in the memorial park is the Monument to Executed Pupils and Teachers. This artwork by sculptor Miodrag Živković from 1963 was erected on the exact spot where the largest group of students and their 15 teachers were executed.
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Ante Gržetić sculpted this monument in 1966. It represents a large bronze figure of a mortally wounded man, who is fighting frantically for another moment of his life, but loses that battle. Yet, above it stands a white obelisk and the two points atop the obelisk can be interpreted as...
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The Crystal Flower monument (otherwise known as the Shoe-shiners monument) was designed by architect Nebojša Delja in 1968. It is dedicated to 15 shoe-shiners – Roma boys aged between 12 and 15 – who were executed by German forces.
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The Stone Sleeper monument is dedicated to people from the surrounding villages who were executed at this site. It was sculpted by Gradimir and Jelica Bosnić in 1970.
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The bronze monument entitled 100 for One was sculpted by Nandor Glid in 1980. It was a gift from the town of Modrića in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This monument is an artistic representation of the cruel command delivered by General Franz Böhme, who ordered that 100 locals be executed for...
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The monument consists of seven steel discs of different sizes, which focus light on the three mass graves surrounding the monument. It was created by sculptor Vojin Bakić and architects Josip and Silvana Sajsl, and it was a gift from the Republic of Croatia in 1981.
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The monument was created by Mexican sculptor Miguel Romo in 1991. It was carved from a single block of marble in the artistic style of the Mayan people, but its theme is Christian.
The Monument was a gift from the Israeli city of Bat Yam and institutions from the Šumadija region in Serbia. It is located outside the memorial park near the grave of the Jews and Serbs who were executed on the 20th of October 1941. The monument was sculpted by Milorad...
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The Monument or Friendship, a gift from the Romanian city of Pitești, is shaped like an open book, whose pages transform into the number 21 when viewed from the correct angle. It was created by Romanian architect Anton Stojku in 1994.
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Within the memorial park, there are two sculptures that were gifts from the great Serbian sculptor Jovan Soldatović in 1979. One of these sculptures, entitled Man Without Illusions, is located on the lawn to the left of the entrance to the museum. The other sculpture, entitled Judges, is at the...
Within the memorial park there is a Serbian-Byzantine-style chapel dedicated to the new martyrs of Kragujevac. It was designed by architect Ljubica Bošnjak. The foundations of this chapel were consecrated on the 14th of May 2002 by His Holiness the Serbian Patriarch Pavle and the Patriarch of Africa, Peter VII.
